Name: Animal Joy
Brand: Shearwater

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

spcd957

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

Sub Pop Label of the Month - September 2016 - Free 12" Sampler with purchase while stocks last

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2012-02-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Shearwater

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sub Pop

After releasing a pair of gorgeous, languid collections of naturalist-themed chamber pop Shearwater delivers a sealskin boot to the head with the measured but primal Animal Joy, their eighth studio album and first for the Sub Pop label. Dense, powerful, wild, yet immaculately rendered, Animal Joy blends the expansive, cinematic scope of contemporaries like Other Lives and the National with the arty drama of "San Jacinto"-era Peter Gabriel. Jonathan Meiburg's mighty falsetto achieves a richness it has only hinted at on previous outings, and the production, provided by the band along with fellow Texan Danny Reisch (White Denim, Brass Bed), is big-budget slick without feeling souless and sterile. Front loaded with four of its most immediate pleasures ("Animal Life," "Breaking the Yearnings," "Dread Sovereign," and "You as You Were"), the 11-track collection retains the group's penchant for crafting organic, melancholy narratives infused with ecological/mythological imagery, but the pace, due in no small part to the spectacular, precision drumming of Thor Harris, has been significantly tweaked, where even the quietest number, the six-and-a-half minute "Insolence," builds to a satisfying sonic catharsis. 

Animal Joy

Music GB